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“White Boy Rick,” the newest film from French director Yann Demange, is a highly entertaining and embarrassingly facile look at the war on drugs. The Rick of the title is real-life Richard Wershe Jr., who became an FBI informant and drug kingpin in Detroit at the age of 15. In telling his story, the movie

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Peering through the mangled segment of fencing, her veins run cold. From a distance, the overgrown vines and bushes looked manageable. But here, alongside the century-old crumbling remnants of the zoo — once the gem of Belle Isle — the weeds posture monstrously above her. “I’ll give you a lift,” he offers. She obliges,

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Walk with me. Follow me to the heart of “Gilbertopia.” It’s post-apocalyptic, but not in science-fiction sort of way. As we walk down its streets, we don’t feel Big Brother’s malevolent eye, experience the untapped wrath of artificial intelligence or witness violent pockets of anarchy. Instead, we find hip restaurants, packed to the brim with

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Readers, I’d like to be able to tell you that we, the Scene writers, transcend all hipster tropes, that we rise above the stereotypes that define so many pop culture enthusiasts — but we are imperfect creatures. Sometimes, the crisp beads of quirky goodness glistening on the outer shell of hipsterdom’s mostly empty framework are

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Notre Dame rode a seven-run first inning to a 10-5 midweek victory over Detroit on Tuesday at Melissa Cook Stadium. The Irish (22-15, 8-7 ACC) came out swinging early, following up a three-up, three-down top half of the frame with a five-hit, seven-run bottom half of the frame to take a lead it would not relinquish

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Notre Dame is set to face off against Boston College this Saturday at Eck Tennis Pavilion before hosting a nonconference doubleheader against No. 17 Illinois and Detroit on Sunday. The Irish (4-2) will open up ACC conference play against the Eagles (1-2), which Irish head coach Ryan Sachire said is important because starting the conference schedule off with a

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Just over a year ago, a friend played me Tyvek’s “Midwest Basement,” a b-side track off their 2012 LP “On Triple Beams.” The song — a loud, loose and dark homage to the suburbanite lifestyle — sent me into a fit of manic romanticism. Tyvek’s slipshod energy may have been sloppy, but it was familiar.

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The second I strolled into El Club, clutching a damp notebook and sporting thick black X’s on my hands (a nifty tool to help bartenders and bouncers identify fans under 21), I felt like an outsider. The venue, hyped as one of the hottest in Detroit, was desolate. Just over a dozen aging millennials lined the

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When rapper Danny Brown says, “You ain’t heard it like this before,” he means it. He puts his struggles with depression, drugs and success on full display in his new album, “Atrocity Exhibition.” The title comes from a Joy Division song that describes a mental asylum open to paying gawkers, and it’s clear the rapper

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Just three games into the season, No.1 Notre Dame already appears to be in midseason form. The Irish (3-0) ousted Detroit, 14-5, this Saturday afternoon at Loftus Sports Center. Against Bellarmine on Wednesday, the Irish struggled to get into an offensive rhythm in the second half, but it seems that those issues have been addressed since